Merry Fiddlers, Fiddlers Hamletback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Visited last week, first time for some years and I can understand the opinions of some of your reviewers.
The bar serving area was quite busy and it was difficult to attract the barmaid's attention especially since she didn't really want to be attracted, preferring to chat (loudly) with the men crowding the bar. Eventually got served with an average bitter but didn't stay long as there was no feeling of being welcome.
Looked at the menu but the dining area didn't look very welcoming either.
Shame, it's an attractive-looking pub which used to enjoy a reputation for good food and drink but is just not the kind of place most people would want to spend time in now.
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Real ale would be my preference but I'm not sniffy about drinking lager and I'm certainly not a fascist! However, on a recent visit received an unwelcome welcome from the bar staff who made me feel my presence was an inconvenience.
Sure the car park had a number of cabs and builders vans - but so what! Been in many similar pubs and never had a problem. Probably not a pub I'd revisit, but that's a personal choice based on the sort of pub I like. Pub was packed when I was there so obviously popular with some people.
Looking at previous reviews the staff at the pub definitely have a problem with customer care and the outside areas certainly need tidying up - especially the signs warning about sanctions for those caught using drugs in the premises!
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People such as harperp3 Tightfart are typical of the real ale facists that think it's disgusting that common "Tradesmen and building type people should be allowed to drink in pubs(what makes it worse is that some them have the gall to drink lager!) Thankfully it would appear that they will returning. The pub is well run and friendly, I would recommend people to give it a try, unless you pompous pr**t* like
those 2.
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Shame as the pub has been there for over 100 years. The bar area is small with separate dining area. Large kid areagarden.
Green Kings IPA & Adnams so yet again the usual suspects.
Seems to be popular with �Tradesmen� in week and families at weekends. One pint was enough no plans to return here.
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Pub going down hill fast, busy with builders and tv screeens, looks a right mess outside, shame.
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I visited this pub June 2009. If you want well cooked food and value for money then don't go to this pub.The staff seemed nice enough but the food was terrible. My family ordered three steaks and they came overcooked and dry, tasted like they had been cooked the previous night and warmed up. We also ordered two vegetarian roasts, the sunday roast but without the most expensive part, the meat. Normally a beef sunday roast costs �9.50 - for a plate of vegetables, minus the meat, they charged us �9.50. To add to this they couldn't even cook to potatoes properley, they were hard. I would never go to this place again.
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I would never visit this pub again. I frequented it in my youth, and recently revisited the Merry Fiddlers for a lunchtime drink. It had changed since my last visit of 10 years previously, but the patio decking and the menu seemed nice, so I booked a table for a Saturday evening dinner with my elderly mother. The service was a little slow, but the waitresses were very chatty, helpful and pleasant. My mother wished to pay, and commented afterwards that it was a little expensive at �73 for two. I returned and politely asked to see the bill. After a long wait, a member of staff came out, gave me a �20 note and said I'd been overcharged. I politely asked again to see the bill. 10 minutes later, no bill. I asked to see the manager, but no joy. Eventually I went behind the counter and found him. I was eventually given a copy of the bill - we'd been overcharged by �30.90. At no stage did 'Roy' apologise - he brusquely cut my explanation short, looked at the bill versus the credit card receipt, and gave me �31, saying he wouldn't 'quibble' over 10 pence. Quite frankly, I've never service this bad from any UK, American or European restaurant, including Mcdonalds and Burger King! AVOID
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This pub has been taken over by new management and I must say how impressed I was with the restaurant food and the welcome I received by the staff. If you haven't visited yet I highly recommend you pay it a visit, I assure you that you won't be disappointed. Due to earlier management this pub doesn't have a good reputation, but times have changed for the better. Do your self a favour and pay a visit.
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We arrived here on a sunday at opening time. One of our party couldn't get through one side of a double door with his tray of drinks so opened the other half and was told off by the manageress. 3 other people went in to get drinks and were all told off for standing in the wrong place or trying to order at the wrong point in the bar. Two sections of our party ordered food. When the third tried, immediately after, we were told we had to wait twenty minutes to order and that we should have booked. I had in fact rung during the week to check opening times and was not told it would be a good idea to book. So we waited twenty minutes and tried again. Wait twenty minutes again we were told. So we tried to cancel the other orders but couldn't. We waited some more and tried again. I managed to order two plates of chips for the children after some argument but that was all. They then explained they were a member of staff down. So we decided to wait until the others had eaten and than take sandwiches to the park. but their food took almost an hour and a half to come. The kids ate the chips but the portions were small and they were still hungry so we decided to give them sandwiches. We knew this wasn't allowed but we had tried very hard to buy food from the pub and had spent loads on drinks and crisps but couldn't leave without the rest of the party. We were in fact trying to celebrate the day after our wedding. We knew we were risking being asked to leave but we thought we would be "asked" to leave. Instead the manageress came storming out and, without giving us a chance to leave, threw our food on the ground and screamed at us, a chef came out the kitchen, swore at us and asked my husband to accompany him to a field so he could punch him - all in front of four small children. They were so unecessarily violent I am still shaking the next day. They seemed to be unsuited to the strain of running a pub.
anonymous - 30 Jul 2007 09:05 |
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